Cannabis and Other Drugs Among Fatally- Injured Drivers In Canada, 2012
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1 Cannabis and Other Drugs Among Fatally- Injured Drivers In Canada, 2012 R. Solomon, Professor M. Clarizio, J.D The Faculty of Law Western University April 18, 2016
2 1 The 2012 Data This document provides information on the presence of cannabis and other drugs among a subset of crash victims, namely fatally-injured drivers of highway vehicles. Thus, the Tables do not include pedestrians, passengers, and drivers of snowmobiles, ATVs, farm vehicles, and bicycles. The fact that a fatally-injured driver tested positive for alcohol and/or drugs does not necessarily mean that he or she was impaired at the time of the crash. As Table I illustrates, the percentage of fatally-injured drivers testing positive for drugs has been increasing, while the percentage testing positive for alcohol has been decreasing. Table I: Alcohol and Drugs Among Fatally-Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles in Canada, % of Fatally-Injured Drivers Testing Positive For Alcohol Drugs % No Data % No Data % No Data % No Data % No Data % 35% % 42% % 36% % 34% % 38% % 37% % 40% The percentage of fatally-injured drivers who were positive for drugs has risen more sharply in some provinces than in others. For example, the presence of drugs among fatally-injured drivers in British Columbia rose from 24% in 2000 to 42% in 2010, the latest year for which there were data for the province. 2 Given the increase in authorized medical marijuana use and the proliferation of so- 1 Table I does not include alcohol or drug-positive, fatally-injured drivers in British Columbia. The Table is based on a report prepared by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) entitled, Alcohol and Drug- Crash Problem in Canada: 2012 Report [Crash Problem, 2012] (Ottawa: Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA), 2013) at 36, Table 3-10 Alcohol Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Canada, ; and at 42, Table 3-14 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Canada, These tables and the rest of the chapter on Canada in the Crash Problem, 2012 do not include British Columbia because 2012 provincial data were not available when the Crash Problem, 2012 was published. 2 Ibid. at 58, Table 4-10 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: British Columbia,
3 2 called medical marijuana shops in British Columbia, the percentage of fatally-injured drivers testing positive for cannabis has likely increased since As Table II illustrates, cannabis was the most common category of drugs found among drugpositive, fatally-injured drivers in Canada. The seven categories of drugs listed below are set out in the International Drug Evaluation Program that Canada adopted pursuant to the Criminal Code s drug-impaired driving provisions. 3 Table II: The Categories of Drugs Among Drug-Positive, Fatally-Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles in Canada, Drug Categories % of Drug-Positive, Fatally-Injured Drivers Cannabis e.g. marijuana, hash and hash oil 47% Central Nervous System Depressants Narcotic Analgesics Central Nervous System Stimulants Dissociative Anesthetics Hallucinogens Inhalants e.g. barbiturates, tranquilizers (Valium & Prozac), and antidepressants ( Zoloft & Paxil) e.g. heroin, Demerol, morphine, methadone, and OxyContin e.g. cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, and crack e.g. phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine e.g. LSD, peyote, psilocybin, and MDMA (Ecstacy) e.g. toluene, paint, gasoline, hair spray, and plastic cement 38% 25% 22% 2%.2% 0% Cannabis was also the most common drug found among drug-positive, fatally-injured drivers in every province except Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan. As Table III illustrates, the presence of cannabis ranged from a low of 0% to a high of 58%. 3 R.S.C. 1985, C-46, s The Criminal Code and related regulations require drug evaluation officers to have met the rigorous training and testing standards established by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). See Evaluation of Impaired Operation (Drugs and Alcohol) Regulations, SOR/ , s. 1; and IACP, The International Drug Evaluation & Classification Program: The 7 Drug Categories, online: IACP < 4 The percentage breakdown in Table II is not identical to that in the Crash Problem, 2012, supra note 1 at 32, Table 3-7 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Canada, As indicated, the Canadian chapter in the Crash Problem, 2012, including Table 3-7, excluded British Columbia. In order to provide a more comprehensive perspective in Table II, we factored in the comparable British Columbia statistics from For the British Columbia data, see Crash Problem, 2012, ibid. at 51 Table 4-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: British Columbia, 2010.
4 3 Table III: The Percentage of Drug-Positive, Fatally-Injured Drivers Testing Positive for Cannabis, by Province in Canada, % of Drug-Positive, Fatally- Injured Drivers Testing Positive for Cannabis CAN 6 47% AB 44% BC 52% MB 7 00% NB 44% NL 50% NS 55% ON 58% PE 00% QC 45% SK 32% Discussion The percentage of fatally-injured drivers testing positive for drugs increased from 2000 to 2012, and the most common drug found was cannabis. This trend will likely continue, if not accelerate, given the increase in lawful medical marijuana use and the proliferation of medical marijuana shops. In May 2008, fewer than 2,650 individuals were legally authorized to possess 5 For the provincial data see the Crash Problem, 2012, ibid. at 51, Table 4-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: British Columbia, 2010; at 66, Table 5-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Alberta, 2012; at 82, Table 6-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Saskatchewan, 2012; at 98, Table 7-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Manitoba, 2012; at 114, Table 8-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Ontario, 2012; at 130, Table 9-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Quebec, 2012; at 146, Table 10-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: New Brunswick, 2012; at 162, Table 11-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Nova Scotia, 2012; at 178, Table 12-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Prince Edward Island, 2012; and at 194, Table 13-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Newfoundland and Labrador, As explained in note 4, the percentage for Canada was based on factoring the 2010 British Columbia data into the 2012 data for the rest of the country. See the Crash Problem, 2012, ibid. at 51 Table 4-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: British Columbia, 2010; and at 32, Table 3-7 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Canada, The absence of cannabis among fatally-injured Manitoba drivers in 2012 may be anomalous. It should be noted in this regard that 12% of drug-positive, fatally-injured drivers in Manitoba tested positive for cannabis in TIRF, Alcohol and Drug-Crash Problem in Canada: 2011 Report (Ottawa: CCMTA, 2013) at 106, Table 7-4 Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers of Highway Vehicles: Manitoba, 2011.
5 4 marijuana for medical purposes. 8 As of January 31, 2013, the number had increased to almost 30,000, 9 and it has been estimated that there will be more than 435,000 licensed medical marijuana users by The recent increase in the number of medical marijuana shops in Canadian cities has been best documented in Vancouver and Toronto. The CBC reported that the Vancouver City Council voted in June 2015 to regulate and licence the almost 100 medical marijuana shops concentrated in the downtown core. 11 By late October of that year, 176 medical marijuana shops had applied for a city licence. In January 2016, it was reported that Toronto had 40 medical marijuana shops and it was stated that the number could increase to more than 100 by the spring. 12 Drug-impaired driving already poses a major traffic safety risk, particularly for young drivers and their passengers. The 2008 Criminal Code amendments providing for Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) and Drug Recognition Evaluation (DRE) finally gave the police authority to investigate drug-impaired driving, 13 albeit 83 years after drug-impaired driving was first criminalized. 14 Despite the best efforts of the police and the 2008 amendments, there is still no effective means of detecting, charging and prosecuting drug-impaired drivers. The legislation has proven to be inadequate on several grounds. A 2012 estimate put the cost of training each evaluating officer in Canada at $17,000, and the process of maintaining certification is expensive and rigorous. 15 The processing of drug-impaired driving suspects is complex, technically exacting and takes approximately two hours from the roadside stop to the completion of the DRE. The DRE itself takes about 30 to 45 minutes and 8 R. v. Beren, 2009 BCSC 429, at para Health Canada, ARCHIVED Marihuana Medical Access Program (MMAR) Statistics 2013 (22 August 2014), online: Health Canada < 10 The Globe And Mail, By the numbers: Canada s medical marijuana use, The Globe And Mail (3 October 2013), online: < Whether this comes to pass will depend on, among other things, the medical regulatory colleges medical marijuana policies and the extent to which the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, S.C. 1996, c. 19 is enforced, particularly in regard to the medical marijuana shops. 11 L. Johnson, Marijuana dispensary regulations approved in Vancouver, CBC News (24 June 2015), online: CBC < uver >. 12 M. Hager, Canada s pot industry calling on Ottawa to stop rise of illegal stores, The Globe And Mail (14 January 2016), online: The Globe And Mail < as-pot-industry-calling-on-ottawa-to-stop-rise-of-illegal-stores/article />. 13 An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, S.C. 2008, c. 6, ss Drug-impaired driving in one form or another has been prohibited since An Act to amend the Criminal Code, S.C. 1925, s communication from D. Beirness, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse to A. Murie, CEO, MADD Canada (24 September 2012).
6 5 requires the evaluating officer to collect and record over 100 separate pieces of information. 16 The Canadian courts remain skeptical about the link between the presence of drugs in a driver s system and the actual impairment of his or her driving ability. 17 For example in R. v. Perillat, the investigating officer smelled an overwhelming odour of marijuana coming from the accused vehicle. 18 The accused admitted to smoking marijuana 2½ hours earlier and showed the officer the roach on her centre console. The results of both the SFST and DRE were indicative of marijuana use, which was confirmed by a urine test. However, at the accused s trial, the judge was not convinced that her ability to drive was impaired by marijuana. The judge explained: But at its best, Constable Schaefer s evidence convinces me that the accused had used marijuana at some point prior to her being stopped at the police check stop that evening and that she still had some of it in her system at the time he did his Drug Recognition Evaluation on her at the police station. What his evidence does not convince me of is that at the time she was driving, her ability to operate a motor vehicle was impaired by marijuana.... Was the accused s performance in some of the tests just as consistent with someone who has poor balance or poor co-ordination as it was with someone who had used marijuana? 19 The judge also stressed the absence of any evidence that the accused had been driving in an erratic, improper or impaired manner. Perillat and other cases that adopt a similar approach do not auger well for drug-impaired driving prosecutions based on SFST and DRE. 20 The SFST and DRE legislation has not had an appreciable deterrent impact on drug-impaired driving. The charge data confirm the conventional wisdom that Canadians can drive after drug use with relative impunity a factor that helps explain the normalization of driving after cannabis use among Canadian youth. 21 For example, the rates of driving after drug use now exceed the rates of 16 A. Porath-Waller, D. Beirness & E. Beasley, Toward a More Parsimonious Approach to Drug Recognition Expert Evaluations (2009) 10(6) Traffic Injury Prevention 513, at See for example, R. v. Jansen, 2010 ONCJ 74 ( Ont. C. J.); R. v. Steeves (2010), 934 A.P.R. 48 (N.B. Prov. Ct.); and R. v. Sanclimenti, [2010] O.J. No (Ont. C.J.). 18 R. v. Perillat (2012), 403 Sask. R. 187 (Sask. Prov. Ct.). 19 Ibid. at paras. 24 and For a detailed review of the 2008 drug-impaired driving amendments, see E. Chamberlain, R. Solomon & A. Kus, Drug-Impaired Driving in Canada: Moving Beyond American Enforcement Models (2013) 60 Criminal Law Quarterly D. Patton, T.-L. Mackay & B. Broszeit, Alcohol and other Drug Use by Manitoba Students (Winnipeg: Addictions Foundation of Manitoba, 2005) at 44-46; M. Asbridge, C. Poulin & A. Donato, Motor vehicle collision risk and driving under the influence of cannabis: Evidence from adolescents in Atlantic Canada (2005) 37 Accident Analysis and Prevention 1025, at 1029; and B. Fischer et al., Toking and driving: Characteristics of Canadian university students who drive after cannabis use an exploratory pilot study (2006) 13(2) Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 179, at 182.
7 6 driving after drinking, but only 2.62% of the total impaired driving charges in 2014 involved drugs. 22 Similarly, while an estimated 10.4 million trips were made in 2012 by drivers after using cannabis, 23 there were only 1,140 charges in that year for all categories of drug-impaired driving. 24 Even if all of these charges involved cannabis, a person could drive after using cannabis once a day for 25 years before being charged with, let alone convicted of, a drug-impaired driving offence. Making cannabis legally available for recreational use will significantly exacerbate the current drug-impaired driving problem. The federal government needs to abandon its exclusive reliance on SFST and DRE and enact a comprehensive system of roadside oral fluid testing and per se limits for the most commonly used illicit drugs. 22 CANSIM Table : Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations (Ottawa: Statistics Canada 2015). 23 D. Beirness & A. Porath-Waller, Clearing the Smoke on Cannabis: Cannabis Use and Driving An Update (Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2013). 24 CANSIM Table , supra note 22.
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